00:01The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has secured a suitable aircraft and crew to transport the four Australian citizens,
00:13the Australian permanent resident and the New Zealand citizen from where they are now in the Netherlands to Australia.
00:21That aircraft is due to land at four o'clock Eastern Standard Time in the Netherlands and due to take
00:30off from the Netherlands at about 5.30pm today, Sydney or Canberra time as well, and will land in Perth
00:38sometime tomorrow.
00:40Obviously, Foreign Affairs and Trade have also secured all of the necessary clearances and approvals to travel from the Netherlands
00:48to Perth.
00:49It is still the intention of the government, still the arrangement is, that that flight will, or that plane will
00:58land at RAF Base Pierce, just northeast of Perth, and I'll come to some of those arrangements.
01:04The six passengers are still in good health. They have all tested negative for Hantavirus and are showing no symptoms
01:13as well.
01:14All passengers and all crew members will travel this flight for its duration in full PPE.
01:23There are very strict conditions about the flight, about the landing, and about the quarantine arrangements at Bullsbrook, which have
01:32been developed by our Centre for Disease Control,
01:35and approved and endorsed over the last little while by the AHPC, the Australian Health Protection Committee,
01:43which is essentially the committee of all of the Jurisdictional Chief Health Officers chaired by the Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer.
01:51Australians can have very high confidence that we are doing everything to ensure that this repatriation of those six passengers
01:59is undertaken completely safely.
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